One dead, one injured in separate Columbus shootings overnight
One person was killed and another was wounded in two separate Columbus shootings Saturday morning.
Columbus police first responded to reports of a shooting around 1 a.m. on Saturday, November 8, 2025, where they found an SUV shot into multiple times near the area of Buena Vista Road at Fairfield Drive. Police say one person was injured in the incident. Their condition is unknown.
More than two hours later, around 3:30 a.m., Columbus police responded to a separate shooting at Azalea Ridge apartment complex, located in the 1400 block of Boxwood Boulevard. One person was pronounced deceased.
Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan says the deceased victim, identified as 30-year-old Demetrius Wilkerson, was shot multiple times while sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle in the parking lot.
According to Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan, the driver of the vehicle in which the victim was sitting witnessed the drive-by shooting.
This is the 26th murder this year.
The deadly shooting remains under investigation by the Columbus Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit.
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